Larry Nash White
Assistant Professor, MLS Program Director
Library Science
Summer 2008
Dr. Larry Nash White was elected to serve as the Chair of the Library Administration and Management Association’s Planning and Evaluation of Library Services (PELS) committee for 2008-2009. The committee’s charge is to provide a national forum in which individuals interested in both the theoretical and practical aspects of planning and evaluation of library services may exchange information; to analyze existing methodologies and ideas regarding the planning and evaluation of library services; to assist other interested individuals with information regarding the planning and evaluation of library services; to introduce innovative approaches to improve the process of planning and evaluation of library services.
Dr. Larry Nash White was elected in a national election of library professionals and researchers to serve as the Vice Chair / Chair Elect of the American Library Association’s Library Research Roundtable (LRRT) for 2008 – 2010. The 1,500+ member LRRT was founded in 1968 to contribute toward the extension and improvement of library research; to provide public program opportunities for describing and evaluating library research projects and for disseminating their findings; to inform and educate ALA members concerning research techniques and their usefulness in obtaining information with which to reach administrative decisions and solve problems; and expand the theoretical base of the field.
Every year Emerald Publishing invites each its journal’s Editorial Team to nominate what they believe has been the title’s “Outstanding Paper” and up to three “Highly Commended Papers” from the previous 12 months (for a total of four (4) awards for each journal.) Dr. Larry Nash White was selected by the Editorial Team of the peer reviewed international published journal, The Bottom Line: Managing Library Finances, to receive the three (3) “Highly Commended Awards” of the Emerald Literati Network 2008 Awards for Excellence for his published articles in the 2007 publication year. Dr. White’s articles were selected from approximately twenty-six (26) articles eligible for consideration for the four (4) awards. The three articles selected were:
- White, Larry Nash. (2007). "Imperfect Reflections: Challenges in Implementing Human Capital Assessment." The Bottom Line. 20(4): 141-147.
- White, Larry Nash. (2007). "A Kaleidoscope of Possibilities: Strategies for Assessing Human Capital in Libraries." The Bottom Line. 20(3):109-115.
- White, Larry Nash. (2007). "Unseen Measures: the Need to Account for Intangibles." The Bottom Line. 20(2): 77- 84.
Dr. Larry Nash White published Library Performance and Service Competition: Developing Strategic Responses. The book describes how libraries and library administrators can identify the service environment factors impacting customers’ strategic needs; identify library competitors’ strategic abilities and service environment impacts; and use the combined results to develop proactive competitive responses that drive the service environment instead of reacting to the service environment. The book is published by Chandos Publishing of London, England.
